Wow, did anyone else catch the pro-trading-liberty-for-security commercial during tonight’s broadcast of 24? Showing no sense of honor, these folks even stooped to the level of using a grieving widow to deliver their progaganda. The fraudulently named Coalition on Security, Liberty, and the Law says that:
The government’s success in preventing another catastrophic attack on the American homeland since September 11, 2001, would have been much more difficult, if not impossible, without the USA Patriot Act.
In other words, since there hasn’t been a *successful* terrorist attack with the borders of the 48 states since passage of the falsely named PATRIOT Act then that means the PATRIOT Act is the reason. Classic false conclusion apologia and not at all surprising. Kool Aid drinkers often leap to false conclusions in order to support their various Big Government causes. Following the 1993 World Trade Center bombing until the 2001 hijackings there were no foreign orchestrated acts of terrorism committed inside the borders of the Continental United States. We didn’t have a falsely named PATRIOT Act to shred the Fourth Amendment, yet we were able to repel and foil foreign terrorist attacks during that period. How so, given the Coalition’s claim that it would be impossible to do so without the PATRIOT Act?
Taking the Festival of Absurd Conclusions a bit further, can I like claim that since the first bombing was planned while a Bush was in office and the second one executed while another Bush was in office that it is probably the fault of people named Bush? Do I have any evidence to prove that? Of course not. It is pure bullshit – same as the claims made by apologists for Big Government Wars of Intervention, domestic surveillance, and further dismantling of the Bill of Rights.
As they are acting as apologists for the UnConstitutional PATRIOT Act, they have revealed themselves to be nothing short of traitors to said Constitution, which they claim to be supporting. They are your classic example of a domestic enemy of the Constitution – something every current and former member of the Armed Services swore an oath to defend against.
By pushing the idea that a lack of terrorist action within our borders since September 11, 2001 is the result of the existence of the PATRIOT Act, they are promoting a false sense of Security. Of course, this completely ignores the fact that long periods of time between acts of terror on American soil are not a new phenomenon. By claiming to be supporters of Liberty while supporting a law that violates several portions of the Bill of Rights, they have committed outright fraud and borderline treason. Finally, their Law and order personna is a shallow veneer that hides the fact that they support a series of laws that run completely counter to the ultimate legal authority in the nation – the Constitution. I’d have to say that’s pretty damned unAmerican of them.
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